Feature Request: Support delegate literal context skipping
Tom S
h3r3tic at remove.mat.uni.torun.pl
Fri Oct 12 04:36:53 PDT 2007
{ downs wrote:
> In the following situation
>
> class Foo {
> int e;
> void delegate() bar() {
> return { e++; };
> }
> }
>
> the delegate literal will not work. This is because its context is bar,
> and bar has ended. But the literal doesn't *need* anything from bar.
>
> Because of this, I propose in situations where a delegate literal
> doesn't access the immediate surrounding stack frame, its context be the
> first frame (or class) that it does access.
> So in this example, { e++; } 's .ptr would point at the respective
> instance of Foo, allowing this to work.
>
> Disadvantages: None
> Advantages: potentially highly helpful with user interface code, where
> such callbacks are commonplace.
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